Tyrants Quotes

520 Tyrants quotes by 357 unique authors

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection. — Crystal Eastman
If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant. — Oriana Fallaci
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's… — Friedrich August von Hayek
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him… — William Hazlitt
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. — Christopher Hitchens
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. — Adolf Hitler
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn… — Eric Hoffer
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself. — Elbert Hubbard
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. — David Hume
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared… — Aldous Huxley
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. — Aldous Huxley
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person. — William Ralph Inge
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. — Thomas Jefferson
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within… — Thomas Jefferson
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. — Franz Kafka
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. — Soren Kierkegaard
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. — Vladimir Lenin
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. — C.S. Lewis
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit… — Abraham Lincoln
Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it… — James Madison
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until… — Norman Mailer
Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and… — Marshall McLuhan

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